THE BREACH OF A PROMISE: THE CASE OF CHRONICLE OF A DEATH ANNOUNCED BY GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ

Certain circumstances of the creation of chronicle of a Death Foretold are reconstructed and their meaning is suggested as an unfulfilment of the promise of not writing fiction untill the end of the Chi;ean dietatorship. Certain material in used to show how this unfulfilment is acconmplished and how it is justified. A peculiar way to neutralize the distance between poetry and life is proposed, as a variant of avant garde proposals. In addition the intial German journalistic reception of the work is revised, material which has been available to us, and which affirms global development and perhaps introduces a new concept of universal literature.